// Hacker Noon · 15 April 2026

Why Distributed Systems Rarely Live at Pure CP or AP

The CAP Theorem only tells you what happens during a network partition. PACELC tells you when the network is working just fine, so you can choose between CP and AP. The trade-off between consistency and latency is a fundamental one for distributed systems.

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